OW2con'12 Speakers

OW2con'12 28 November 2012

Cedric Thomas

Biography:
Cedric Thomas, is OW2 CEO. An IT industry veteran with twenty-five years of experience in strategy and marketing consulting for IT vendors and systems integrators, he has developed OW2 into a global community spanning four continents. Prior to OW2, as both an investor and a consultant, he actively took part in three IPOs, contributed to the launch of several technology start-ups, and helped set up technology firms in Boston and San Francisco.

Patrick Starck

Keynote Session: Patrick Starck, Cloudwatt
Title: To be Open Source... or not to be?

Biography:
Before being named President of Cloudwatt Patrick Starck has spent more than 25 years of his career with large international groups operating in the field of infrastructure, software and services.
From 2006 to 2011, Patrick Starck has been Corporate Senior Vice President EMEA, CA Technologies, a global information technology (IT) management software company. Previously, Patrick was since 2002, CEO of HP France, EMEA Vice President and General Manager of HP Technology Solutions Group. He joined Compaq in 1994 and spent seven years in various positions and was CEO of Compaq France in 2000. Before, Patrick Starck has spent 10 years at IBM where he held the positions of software development engineer, sales engineer, head of sales for aerospace industry and director of the industry department.

Mark Weitzel

Biography:
Mark Weitzel, Director, Platform & Ecosystem, for Jive Software, is responsible for driving open architecture and technologies across the product portfolio and building a robust, vibrant developer and partner ecosystem. A firm believer in open technologies, Mr. Weitzel has participated in numerous open source and open standards activities. In 2010, he was appointed President of the OpenSocial Foundation, an industry standards organization dedicated to advancing the social Web and ensuring the free and open development of OpenSocial specification and the overall advancement of the Social Web.

Alexandre Zapolsky

Keynote Session: Alexandre Zapolsky, Linagora

Biography:
Founder and the CEO of LINAGORA, which on of the world leading Open Source Software Company

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OW2con'12 28 November 2012 morning - SESSION PROJECT SPOTLIGHT

Gianfranco Boccalon

Abstract: eServices with Spagic at OMSAR - Public Administration of the Republic of Lebanon - Gianfranco Boccalon, Spagic - Engineering Group The Public Administration in the Republic of Lebanon has adopted Spagic to develop an infrastructure supporting the realization of eServices, which allows citizens to request for specific services delivered by the Public Administration, through the portal of the Office of the Minister of State for Administrative Reform (OMSAR). Citizens can submit various types of service requests on-line, such as requests for registration certificates. At any time users can check the status of the submitted requests: in progress; need for additional documentation; incoming communications sent by the administration; outcome. During the project development, particular attention was paid to the realization of the tools that had been provided by the operators of the various administrations, in order to dynamically create new eServices. This project is an important step forward in the Lebanese public administration's IT infrastructure innovation path. This is not only the result of the adoption of a completely open source solution. It also allows a greater involvement of citizens in the management of administration activities, with a particular focus on delivering efficient services and transparent information. The speech provides an overview on the project state of the art and the obtained results. Participation of some OMSAR representatives to be confirmed.

Biography:
Gianfranco Boccalon, Spagic Project Leader, is a Senior Consultant at Engineering Group with long experience in the IT field. He has valuable expertise in J2EE architectures and frameworks, in the SOA environment and in software development methods, with a specific focus on performance testing and measurements. Before joining SpagoWorld team, he worked in the development of CAD applications and in consultancy and software development of financial applications. He is currently working on Spagic evolution in the SOA domain.

Thomas Mortagne

Abstract: XWiki Extension Manager in action - Thomas Mortagne, XWikiXWiki team is actively working on a powerful system to extend XWiki with different type of modules with their dependencies coming from various repositories. The presentation goal is to give a state of this component and the future improvements and new features as well as an overview of the many extensions points of Extension Manager itself (support other kind of repositories, other kind of extensions, events, etc.). Also a short demonstration of various possibilities of this new component inside XWiki will be run.

Biography:
Thomas Mortagne graduated from French computer science school EPITECH in 2006. He started working on XWiki project for XWiki SAS company in 2007 as core developer. He worked on most server side parts of XWiki platform and is currently the lead developer on Extension Manager module.

Serge Lacourte

Abstract: ScalAgent DT unveils JoramMQ Entreprise, tools and services for the JORAM user - Serge Lacourte, ScalAgentJORAM is a Message Oriented Middleware distributed under LGPL licensing on ow2.org. JORAM has achieved industrial grade quality over the last 10 years. Designed initially to implement the JMS standard, it is steadily evolving. Conformance to the new AMQP 1.0 standard is planned for the next months.
In order to facilitate the development and exploitation of JORAM applications, ScalAgent DT launches JoramMQ Entreprise. JoramMQ includes the standard version of JORAM, and complements it with tools and SaaS services. It targets all steps in the lifecyle of the JORAM application. With JoramMQ, JORAM users will better prepare and design their MOM project, gain valuable time in developing an debugging code, get useful monitoring of their running system, and better organize for scaling.

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Florent Garin

Abstract: DocDokuPLM: Product Structure - Digital MockUp visualization using HTML5 - Florent Garin, DocDoku
DocDokuPLM (Product Lifecycle Management) is a middleware solutions aim at managing the entire lifecycle of a product from its conception to its disposal through the manufacturing stage. PLM systems involve the whole enterprise, they gather at a central point data, business processes and people. They expose backbone services for the company, their partners and their subcontrators thus we design our PLM with the extended enterprise concept in mind. On the technical part we made the decision to not rely on any native code on the client side all the features must be accessible through a regular web browser. If that seems quite obvious nowadays and doesn't represent a big challenge for the "Document Management", "Product Configuration", "Change Management" or "Bill of Materials" modules that tends to be far more complex when developing the data visualization of the product structure. This session will focus on how we implemented the visualization and the manipulation of the Digital MockUp (DMU) using HTML5 technologies. We'll explain the difficulties we encountered and also the various optimizations we made in order to render a model with thousands part. And obviously we'll show a real demonstration !

Biography:
Florent Garin is the co-founder of DocDoku, an IT consultancy and software development organization specialized on Android, iOS and HTML5 technologies. We’re focus on business applications, our customers are mostly big companies and innovative startups. Prior to DocDoku, Florent has 10 years’ experience working for the IT departments of fortune 500 companies, and more specifically in the PLM area in the aerospace domain. Florent is also « JEE architect » and « Java Developer » Oracle certified. He’s the author of the successful french written Android book « Concevoir et développer des applications mobiles et tactiles ».

OW2con'12 28 November 2012 afternoon - SESSION OPEN SOURCE CLOUD

Frederic Aatz

Keynote Session: Alfonso Castro, Microsoft & Frederic Aatz

Biography:
Frederic Aatz - Responsible for defining and driving the Interop and Open Source strategy for Microsoft France. After 9 years in services developing and managing projects on Unix environment, Frederic joined Microsoft 19 years ago, working and managing the Enterprise and Partner as well as developer pre-sales roles before launching and driving the Microsoft Technology center in France for the past 7 years.

Alfonso Castro

Keynote Session: Alfonso Castro, Microsoft & Frederic Aatz

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After several years in the Unix business, Alfonso joined Microsoft 17 years where we worked on server technologies like Windows Server and Exchange. He spent the past 6 years in working exclusively on Open Source, contributing to Microsoft's Openness by connecting with customers and Open Source communities and vendors like SUSE in which partnership he is very much involved.

Jamie Marshall

Abstract: CompatibleOne the Open Source Cloud Broker - Jamie Marshall, Prologue
Next generation cloud service management software will offer service brokering capabilities. This session will provide an overview of the architecture of an open source cloud service broker that would allow for the description, provision, deployment and management of any type or configuration of cloud services delivered by heterogeneous cloud service providers in accordance with a consumer's SLA. A broker allows the federation of resources across heterogeneous Cloud Service Providers and thus plays an important role in avoiding vendor lock-in. The session will end with a live demonstration showing how a federation of multiple OpenStack providers can be managed by CompatibleOne, an open source cloud service broker, in a multi-cloud environment.

Biography:
Jamie Marshall is the CTO of Prologue (France), a renowned industry leader in the field of cloud computing. He is the author of the business application languages ABAL and ABAL++ based on virtual microprocessor technologies and precursors to Java. He has been working in this field for the past 25 years.

Bernard Boltz

Abstract: A platform for monitoring Cloud infrastructure and applications - Bernard Boltz, Orange
Various factors introduce specific and new constrains for the monitoring of the Cloud infrastructure and services. For instance, a monitoring tool has to adapt to the quick and elastic provisioning, an important feature of the Cloud. We developed from an open source platform, Icinga / Nagvis, several modules that allow: 1) For the data center infrastructure monitoring - Auto discovery of components of virtualized infrastructures and automatic set-up of their monitoring according to appropriate templates - Dialogue with the VMware API to query, among other things, the status of clusters, resource pools - Maps management in order to drill up or down in the hierarchy of the data center et the virtualized components. 2) For the application monitoring - Management of an applications dashboard that contains a representative set of key performance indicators (KPIs). - Calculation of the indicators - Management of maps showing the links between application and infrastructure. This implementation allows enhanced monitoring. We have also learned the lessons of the experimentation. The presentation will present these modules and limitations encountered.

Biography:
Bernard Boltz is graduated from the engineering school in Grenoble in 1977. He began working for Alcatel and joined the France Telecom R&D division in 1982. He left Paris on the occasion of the opening of the Sophia Antipolis premises in 1989. He has been in charge of various IT projects. He has a large experience in network management and in software design.

Alexandre Lefebvre

Abstract: OpenCloudware: the Cloud application lifecycle management platform - Alexandre Lefebvre, Orange & OW2 and Thomas Debru, UShareSoft
The OpenCloudware collaborative R&D project aims at building an open software engineering platform, for the collaborative development of distributed applications to be deployed on multiple Cloud infrastructures. It will be available through a self-service portal. We target virtualized multi-tier applications such as JavaEE - OSGi. The results of OpenCloudware contain a set of software components to manage the lifecycle of such applications, from modelling (Think), developing and building images (Build), to a multi-IaaS compliant PaaS platform (Run) for their deployment, orchestration, performance testing, self-management (elasticity, green IT optimisation) and provisioning. Applications can be deployed potentially on multiple IaaS (supporting either one IaaS at a time, or hybrid scenarios). The results of the project are gradually made available as open source components through the OW2 Open Source Cloudware initiative. The OpenCloudware project is coordinated by France Telecom Orange, funded by the french Fonds National pour la Société Numérique (FSN) and endorsed by competitiveness clusters Minalogic, Systematic and SCS. The project runs between January 2012 and December 2014.

Biography:
Alexandre Lefebvre work at France Telecom Orange Labs in a unit responsible for enterprise middleware. Currently, he is CTO of OW2, and co-lead of OW2 Open Source Cloudware initiative http://www.ow2.org/Cloud/ as well as Open Cloud coordinator at Orange Labs. He is the lead of the OpenCloudware collaborative research project.

Thomas Debru

Abstract: OpenCloudware: the Cloud application lifecycle management platform - Thomas Debru, UShareSoft and Alexandre Lefebvre, Orange & OW2
The OpenCloudware collaborative R&D project aims at building an open software engineering platform, for the collaborative development of distributed applications to be deployed on multiple Cloud infrastructures. It will be available through a self-service portal. We target virtualized multi-tier applications such as JavaEE - OSGi. The results of OpenCloudware contain a set of software components to manage the lifecycle of such applications, from modelling (Think), developing and building images (Build), to a multi-IaaS compliant PaaS platform (Run) for their deployment, orchestration, performance testing, self-management (elasticity, green IT optimisation) and provisioning. Applications can be deployed potentially on multiple IaaS (supporting either one IaaS at a time, or hybrid scenarios). The results of the project are gradually made available as open source components through the OW2 Open Source Cloudware initiative. The OpenCloudware project is coordinated by France Telecom Orange, funded by the french Fonds National pour la Société Numérique (FSN) and endorsed by competitiveness clusters Minalogic, Systematic and SCS. The project runs between January 2012 and December 2014.

Biography:
Thomas Debru is COO and co-founder of UShareSoft. Thomas has more than 16 years experience in the development and quality assurance of enterprise software. Prior to co-founding UShareSoft, Thomas held several management positions at Sun Microsystems and Atos Origin.

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Denis Caromel Bio: Denis Caromel (PhD. and MBA HEC) is professor at University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis-CNRS and INRIA Sophia. He is also founder and CEO of ActiveEon. His research interests include distributed, and Cloud computing. Denis Caromel gave many invited talks on Cloud, Parallel and Distributed Computing around the world (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Berkeley, Stanford, NASA Langley, IBM Tom Watson and Zurich). He acted as keynote speaker at several major conferences (MDM, DAPSYS 2008, CGW'08, Shanghai CCGrid 2009, IEEE ICCP'09, ICPADS 2009 in Hong Kong). Recently, he gave many invited talks, e.g. at Devoxx (gathering about 3500 persons), an invited conference on Cloud at Expo Universal 2010, Oct. 18, Shanghai, China, and at 2011 Open Stack Summit in Santa Clara.

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Bruno Dillenseger is a computing scientist and engineer. He has been working during the past 18 years in the area of distributed computing middleware. His contributions range from academic papers to code in open source projects. Since 2002, he is leading OW2's CLIF project, providing a highly adaptable Java framework for load testing.

Jean-Christophe Vuillot

Abstract: OpenPaaS: the open-source Enterprise Social network for the Cloud -Jean-Christophe Vuillot, Linagora
The OpenPaaS project aims at developing an Open-Source Enterprise Social Network that leverage OBM collaborative solution and Petals BPM workflow engine and run-time. Leaded by LINAGORA, the French Open-Source Software leader, OpenPaaS addresses the whole collaborative application life-cycle. It provides basic features such as profile definition, collaborative mail, agenda, forms and workflow editors as well as an open API for external contributors. OpenPaaS's run-time reuses Petals BPEL process engine and Petals Enterprise Service Bus. These tools are deployed on an hybrid IaaS infrastructure that allows to connect heterogeneous external applications. OpenPaaS project is funded by the FSN (Fond National pour la Société Numérique).

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Jeanne Le Garrec

Abstract: "Unified Infrastructure Management powered by Kanopya, Jeanne Le Garrec & Sylvain Baubeau, Hedera Technology"
Hedera introduces how to manage and pilot the entire IT stack from a unique console. It's the first fully featured unified and integrated cloud plateform that provides end-to-end cloud infrastructure solution and gives customers flexibility and choice to integrate with their existing IT environments. Customers have flexible controls to manage and extend their IT environments to clouds with multiple physical, virtual and cloud connectors.

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Sylvain Baubeau

Abstract: "Unified Infrastructure Management powered by Kanopya, Jeanne Le Garrec & Sylvain Baubeau, Hedera Technology"
Hedera introduces how to manage and pilot the entire IT stack from a unique console. It's the first fully featured unified and integrated cloud plateform that provides end-to-end cloud infrastructure solution and gives customers flexibility and choice to integrate with their existing IT environments. Customers have flexible controls to manage and extend their IT environments to clouds with multiple physical, virtual and cloud connectors.

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Jean-Marc Menaud

Abstract: BtrPlace: An Extensible VM manager to face up to SLA expectations in a cloud - Fabien Hermenier, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis and Jean-Marc Menaud, Ecoles des Mines de NantesClients of IaaS providers are looking for dependable infrastructures that can cope with their SLA requirements. To stay attractive, a cloud must then rely on a VM placement algorithm with features matching as possible the SLAs expectations. These constraints are however very specific to each of the tenants but also the infrastructure. They also cover a large range of concerns (reliability, performance, security, energy-efficiency, ...) that are continuously evolving according to new trends and new technologies. Current VM placement algorithms are designed as monolithic systems. Clouds administrators and clients are then passive actors, waiting for the future release of the placement algorithm that may match their current expectations. During this presentation, we will present BtrPlace, an open source VM manager that can be specialized on demand by third party developers to integrate new placement constraints. BtrPlace has already been used successfully to address high-availability, security but also energy-efficiency concerns. It has been developped since 2006 in the Mines de Nantes then with the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis. It is now a part of the OpenCloudware project that aims at building an open platform for the development and the deploymet of distributed application on clouds.

Biography:
Jean-Marc Menaud is an associate professor at the Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France, in the Ascola EMN/INRIA, LINA team. From 2006, he is working on Entropy then btrCloud, a software solution to manage virtual machine in cluster environnement. More precisely, he is working on optimisation system to reduce energy consumption in large scale distributed system.

Fabien Hermenier

Abstract: BtrPlace: An Extensible VM manager to face up to SLA expectations in a cloud - Fabien Hermenier, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis and Jean-Marc Menaud, Ecoles des Mines de NantesClients of IaaS providers are looking for dependable infrastructures that can cope with their SLA requirements. To stay attractive, a cloud must then rely on a VM placement algorithm with features matching as possible the SLAs expectations. These constraints are however very specific to each of the tenants but also the infrastructure. They also cover a large range of concerns (reliability, performance, security, energy-efficiency, ...) that are continuously evolving according to new trends and new technologies. Current VM placement algorithms are designed as monolithic systems. Clouds administrators and clients are then passive actors, waiting for the future release of the placement algorithm that may match their current expectations. During this presentation, we will present BtrPlace, an open source VM manager that can be specialized on demand by third party developers to integrate new placement constraints. BtrPlace has already been used successfully to address high-availability, security but also energy-efficiency concerns. It has been developped since 2006 in the Mines de Nantes then with the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis. It is now a part of the OpenCloudware project that aims at building an open platform for the development and the deploymet of distributed application on clouds.

Biography:
Fabien Hermenier is an associate professor at University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis. Since its Phd in 2006 in Nantes, he is working on autonomous systems to place VMs in hosting platforms according to various placement constraints. His results are available through the open source VM manager named Entropy, and its VM placement algorithm named BtrPlace.

Christophe Hamerling

Abstract: Playing with SOA, EDA and Event processing in the Cloud - Christophe Hamerling, Linagora
Abstract : The PLAY project ( is developing an elastic and reliable architecture for dynamic and complex, event-driven interaction in large highly distributed and heterogeneous service systems. Such an architecture will enable ubiquitous exchange of information between heterogeneous services, providing the possibilities to adapt and personalize their execution, resulting in the so-called situational-driven process adaptivity.

Biography:
Christophe is a Software Engineer/Developer/Architect/Addict working on Service Oriented Architecture and Cloud Projects at Linagora, a French Open Source Software Editor and active OW2 member. Christophe is one of the main OW2-Petals ESB comiter and works on several European and French research projects dealing with SOA, Cloud and Open source.

Patrick Petit

Abstract: XLcloud: Remote rendering for games and 3D graphics applications in the cloud - Patrick Petit, Bull & Marius Preda, Telecom SudParis The XLcloud project proposes a cutting-edge high performance cloud computing environment that enables low-latency remote rendering of 3D and complex 2D applications such as online gaming, cultural artifacts visualization and virtual body inspection in the cloud. Many people refer to cloud computing as managing virtual machines that run on top of an hypervisor. However, in certain circumstances, using virtualization is not desirable when applications have stringent performance requirements or need access to devices that are not supported by hypervisors like GPUs for example. However, it is still very convenient to utilize the features of a IaaS cloud such as instance management and image management for use cases that require the automated provisioning of a collection of cloud resources. As such, the main paradigm of XLcloud is based upon the ability to instantiate purpose-built virtual cluster instances that feature a collection of connected physical and virtual resources to support high-performance / low-latency video encoding and interactivity streaming artifacts. The presentation of XLcloud will provide a description of the Remote Rendering Virtual Cluster architecture with a particular emphasis on server components that are designed to enable a highly pervasive environment allowing end-users to run their 3D applications anywhere on any device. In addition, we will describe a low computational method to perform ROI-based (Region Of Interest) video encoding and adaptive streaming as well as a multi-modal representation of the images and videos (i.e. pixel vs graphics) to reduce the bit rate requirements. Finally, we will conclude with a short description of a partitioning algorithm and some implementation details.

Biography:
Patrick Petit is a senior software architect with over 25 years of experience in distributed systems, open-source software engineering, Internet technologies, and IT systems management. Patrick has joined Bull in Marsh 2011 to work as a cloud computing chief architect for the Innovative Products division. He is currently the XLcloud project leader which was selected for subsidization by the French government through its Fonds National pour la Société Numérique (FSN). He is also involved in Numergy and a soon to be announced high performance cloud computing infrastructure project. Prior to working at Bull, Patrick held a position of Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems since 1997. He occupied different software architect roles in the iPlanet Division and Technology Office of the company both in the US (California), and the R&D Engineering Center of Grenoble, where he has a track record of successful achievements including being one of the main contributor of the Java Enterprise System suite. More recently, he completed an MBA at the Grenoble Graduate School of Business (GGSB) with a master thesis that had for subject the business economics of cloud computing.

Marius Preda

Abstract: XLcloud: Remote rendering for games and 3D graphics applications in the cloud - Patrick Petit, Bull & Marius Preda, Telecom SudParis The XLcloud project proposes a cutting-edge high performance cloud computing environment that enables low-latency remote rendering of 3D and complex 2D applications such as online gaming, cultural artifacts visualization and virtual body inspection in the cloud. Many people refer to cloud computing as managing virtual machines that run on top of an hypervisor. However, in certain circumstances, using virtualization is not desirable when applications have stringent performance requirements or need access to devices that are not supported by hypervisors like GPUs for example. However, it is still very convenient to utilize the features of a IaaS cloud such as instance management and image management for use cases that require the automated provisioning of a collection of cloud resources. As such, the main paradigm of XLcloud is based upon the ability to instantiate purpose-built virtual cluster instances that feature a collection of connected physical and virtual resources to support high-performance / low-latency video encoding and interactivity streaming artifacts. The presentation of XLcloud will provide a description of the Remote Rendering Virtual Cluster architecture with a particular emphasis on server components that are designed to enable a highly pervasive environment allowing end-users to run their 3D applications anywhere on any device. In addition, we will describe a low computational method to perform ROI-based (Region Of Interest) video encoding and adaptive streaming as well as a multi-modal representation of the images and videos (i.e. pixel vs graphics) to reduce the bit rate requirements. Finally, we will conclude with a short description of a partitioning algorithm and some implementation details

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Marius Preda is Associate Professor with Institut TELECOM, France and the founder and responsible of GRIN – Graphics and Interactive Media (www.MyMultimediaWorld.com). He is currently the chairperson of MPEG 3D Graphics group. He has been actively involved in MPEG since 1998, especially focusing on Video and 3D Graphics coding. He is the main contributor of the new animation tools dedicated to generic synthetic objects. More recently, he is the leader of MPEG-V and MPEG AR groups. He is editor of several MPEG standards. Marius Preda's research interests include 3D graphics and video compression, virtual characters, local and remote rendering, interactive rich multimedia and multimedia standardization. Marius Preda is leading several research projects and cooperation at the institutional, national, European and international levels.

Frederic Dang Tran

Abstract: The Sirocco multi-cloud management framework - Frédéric Dang Tran, Orange Labs & Paweł Rubach, Orange Poland
While private cloud solutions as well as public cloud service offers are numerous, effective management still remains a challenge where it comes to multi-cloud or hybrid cloud deployment models where applications span several clouds. This presentation gives an overview of the OW2 Sirocco multi-cloud management framework with a particular focus on two topics: API mediation and placement management. Sirocco allows consumers to provision resources on multiple cloud providers whether private or public and relies on an orchestration layer that hides the heterogeneity of the underlying providers (in terms of API, virtualization technology...) through a unified user interface and API. Sirocco has adopted the DMTF Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface (CIMI) whose 1.0 release was released on 29 August 2012. Internally, this unified API is translated to the specific API and virtual resource model of each provider. Sirocco currently supports Amazon EC2, VMware vCloud Director as well as OpenStack as back-end clouds. A key component of Sirocco focuses on provider selection and placement management, namely how to select a cloud provider that offers the best match between the client request (QoS, geographical constraints...) and the provider's capabilities. Sirocco integrates a flexible decision-making framework that relies on a rule-based engine.

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Frederic Dang Tran is a research engineer at Orange Labs since 1990. He graduated from Telecom ParisTech ENST in 1990. His current research activities focus on cloud computing middleware, virtualization technologies and resource management. He co-represents Orange at the DMTF Cloud Management Work Group since 2011. Paweł Rubach is an IT architect and researcher at Orange Labs Poland since 2007. He received his M.Sc. in Information Systems and Quantitve Methods from the Warsaw School of Economics in 2003 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Electronics and Information Systems. Apart from his work for Orange Labs he is an Assistant Professor at the Warsaw School of Economics in the Department of Business Informatics. Since Feb. 2012 he is responsible for the development of the placement management within the Sirocco multicloud broker platform.

Pawel Rubach

Abstract: The Sirocco multi-cloud management framework - Frédéric Dang Tran, Orange Labs & Paweł Rubach, Orange Poland
While private cloud solutions as well as public cloud service offers are numerous, effective management still remains a challenge where it comes to multi-cloud or hybrid cloud deployment models where applications span several clouds. This presentation gives an overview of the OW2 Sirocco multi-cloud management framework with a particular focus on two topics: API mediation and placement management. Sirocco allows consumers to provision resources on multiple cloud providers whether private or public and relies on an orchestration layer that hides the heterogeneity of the underlying providers (in terms of API, virtualization technology...) through a unified user interface and API. Sirocco has adopted the DMTF Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface (CIMI) whose 1.0 release was released on 29 August 2012. Internally, this unified API is translated to the specific API and virtual resource model of each provider. Sirocco currently supports Amazon EC2, VMware vCloud Director as well as OpenStack as back-end clouds. A key component of Sirocco focuses on provider selection and placement management, namely how to select a cloud provider that offers the best match between the client request (QoS, geographical constraints...) and the provider's capabilities. Sirocco integrates a flexible decision-making framework that relies on a rule-based engine.

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Eric Debeau

Abstract: Emerginov, an open PHP PaaS for co-innovation - Eric Debeau, Orange
The presentation deals with the description of a simple open platform as a service (Paas) dedicated to open innovation. This platform is based on the smart integration of free software components and promote the massive usage of open technologies (LAMP, Asterisk, OpenSIPS) and open API. It has been deployed in Africa and used to stimulate open innovation in emerging countries. It allows rapid prototyping of "telco-web" micro-services on over the top of traditional operator networks using open APIs (SMS, vocal access). It aims to build a reference library of business applications under free licenses. The project has recently joined OW2 and aims to publish 2 versions of the solution: a standalone version and a Telco grade version. See the main portal http://www.emerginov.org for more details. Keywords: Co-innovation, free software, micro-service, SMS, Voice

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Alban Richard

Abstract: Helping ISVs and OW2 projects to onboard software to cloud - Alban Richard, Usharesoft
This session discusses how ISVs and OW2 projects can easily onboard their software to cloud. IT cloud app stores and marketplaces are now beginning to emerge. In the near future, such stores will be a new way for ISVs to accelerate their business and grow user adoption. However today, preparing applications for cloud app stores often requires lengthy, manual processes to build software images. Often, these processes are not agile enough to easily support multiple hypervisors and clouds, or quickly implement software updates. ISVs need tools that model software images as templates, as well as automating the assembly and maintenance processes. By using a model-driven approach, ISVs can easily support multiple hypervisors as well as hybrid cloud environments.
UShareSoft's UForge image template management platform enables ISVs and OW2 projects to package applications as customizable software templates or ready-to-run VMs available for instant publish to any cloud infrastructure or market place. The session will cover how OW2 projects can benefit from UForge as well as providing a short demonstration of the UForge factory and app store in action.

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Alban Richard is CEO of UShareSoft, bringing more than 25 years experience in the IT industry, including engineering, marketing and product management executive roles, with P&L and general management responsibilities. He has a successful track record for building more than 20 server software product lines, including world's leading technologies such as Oracle's Directory Server Enterprise Edition and Sun Java Management Extensions (JMX) for which Richard was one of the two inventors. Prior to joining UShareSoft, Richard spent more than 18 years with Sun Microsystems in the US and France, most recently leading Sun's Directory Server Enterprise Edition product line and managing the company's R&D Engineering Center (GEC) in Europe. Richard is also a Board Member for the OW2 Consortium.

Andrea Manieri

Abstract: VENUS-C: lessons learned of using open source clouds in eScience - Andrea Manieri, Engineering
VENUS-C is the first European distributed computing infrastructure to adopt a User-centric approach to Cloud Computing, putting the needs of end-User communities of researchers and small businesses at the forefront of development. A representative User community sample was composed by the 7 scenarios, the 15 pilots and the 5 experiments from eleven different disciplines and SMEs. Chief among the success stories is Green Prefab, a start-up company for architects and civil engineers, which hosts a new innovation cluster stemming from VENUS-C, HUB-Engineering (http://www.hub-e.com/). The VENUS-C Architecture Report describes the blueprint for the platform based on which a reference implementation has been done applying a rapid prototyping approach with interactive releases and User validation. The project publicly released open-source components (, namely: • Generic Worker (PMES (Process Management Enactment Services) and programming framework) • COMPSs (PMES and programming framework) • CDMI Proxy • Accounting and billing service • Traffic Redundancy Elimination (TRE) • Interoperability Toolkit As a result, it is clear that the adoption of Cloud and Virtualisation technologies and services is a win-win situation for the scientific community, as it releases benefits for both research institutions, industry.

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Graduated in Computer Science 1998, with a master thesis on object oriented lambda calculus with prof. Emeritus C.Boehm. In 2000 he joined EU projects as Technical Manager in the ECOLNET, then in 2002 he was appointed as RTD Coordinator in Engisanità Spa, an Engineering Group company on HealthCare market. On April 2003 he joined again the Engineering labs as responsible of development of new business on Grid Technology establishing a specific unit and contributing to several project in FP6/FP7 project. He was Exploitation Manager of Diligent project, and Project manager of and EC study (www.erina-study.eu). He is currently Project Director of VENUS-C project (FP7 INFRA-261556) and ERINA+ support Action (FP7 INFRA-261550). His current research interests involve Open Source Cloud management tools and parallel and multicore programming.

OW2con'12 29 November 2012

Ali Ataya

Keynote: Ali Ataya, Office of the Minister of State for Administrative Reform on Open source technologies to improve the relation between the Lebanese Administration and the Citizen.

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Having obtained a Ph. D. of Computer Science in France I turned to the object-oriented field and the associated methods of design and development. This then led to the development of specific expertise in the areas of e-business architecture and Information Systems. I was involved with numerous projects around the world (France, UK, Belgium and the Middle East).
My current speciality is the Enterprise Architecture and the Programs Management.

Rani Halimi

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Rani Halimi joined Bull in May 2003 and has held a number of positions as Technical Expert, then Skills Center Manager and Solution Architect respectively. For two years, he was involved in defining the technical aspects of the Le cloud by Bull ™ offering, as Lead Cloud Computing Architect.

Nicolas Aube

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Marc Triboulet

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Jim Walker

Keynote: Big Data Jim Walker, HortonWorks

Biography:
Jim is a recovering developer, professional marketer and amateur photographer with nearly twenty years experience building products and developing emerging technologies. During his career, he has brought multiple products to market in a variety of fields, including data loss prevention, master data management and now big data. At Hortonworks, Jim is focused on accelerating the development and adoption of Apache Hadoop.

Monica Franceschini

Abstract: SpagoBI and Big Data: next Open Source Information Management suite - Monica Franceschini, Engineering
Organizations adopt Business Intelligence tools to analyze tons of data: nonetheless, several business leaders do not dispose of the information they actually need. This happens because the information management scenario is evolving. Various new contents are adding to structured information, supported by already known processes, tools and practices, including information coming from social computing. They will be managed by disparate processes, fragmented tools, new practices. This information will combine with various contents of enterprise systems: documents, transactional data, databases and data warehouses, images, audio, texts, videos. This huge amount of contents is named "big data", even though it is not just related to a big amount of data. It refers to the capability of managing data that are growing along three dimensions - volume, velocity and variety - respecting the simplicity of the user interface. The speech describes SpagoBI approach to the "big data" scenario and presents SpagoBI suite roadmap, which is two-fold. It aims to address existing emerging analytical areas and domains, providing the suite with new capabilities - including big data and open data support, in-memory analysis, real time and mobile BI - and following a research path towards the realization of a new generation of SpagoBI suite.

Biography: Monica is IT Solution Architect and has more than ten years of experience in the development of projects for the industry and public administration, based on Java technologies. She has worked in the field of content management, search engines, portals as well as web applications security and accessibility. On the strength of her skills and her passion for open source software, she delivers consulting services, training courses and on-the-job training on Business Intelligence and SpagoBI. She contributes to the development of the suite and to the realization of customers' projects. She also carries out promotional activities supporting the spreading and development of the suite at the international level.

Cedric Carbone

Abstract: "The Big Challenge of Big Data and Hadoop Integration - Cédric Carbone, Talend"
Enterprises can't close their doors just because integration tools won't cope with the volume of information that their systems produce. As each day goes by, their information will become larger and more complicated, and enterprises must constantly struggle to manage the integration of dozens (or hundreds) of systems. Apache Hadoop has quickly become the technology of choice for enterprises that need to perform complex analysis of petabytes of data, but few are aware of its potential to handle large-scale integration work. By using effective tools, integrators can process the complex transformation, synchronization, and orchestration tasks required in a high-performance, low cost, infinitely scalable way. In this talk, Cédric Carbone will discuss how Hadoop can be used to integrate disparate systems and services, and provide a demonstration of the process for designing and deploying common integration tasks.

Biography:
Cédric Carbone is Talend's Chief Technical Officer since its inception, where he manages the data integration, data quality, big data, MDM, and ESB products lines with an international team of more than 140 R&D engineers. He's also a Board Member at the Eclipse Foundation and OW2 consortium. Cédric has lectured at several universities on technical topics such as XML or Web Services. He holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science and an Advanced Degree in Document Engineering.

John Mertic

Abstract: Building an application on the SugarCRM platform - John Mertic, Sugar CRM
Need to build an application to run part of your organization? One approach is that you could start writing something from scratch, perhaps leveraging an existing general purpose framework to help get you going. However, even if you use a framework, there's still the need to build all those standard components such as user interface, workflow, and ACL security, which can take quite some time to design and code. There's no need to start from scratch; SugarCRM is designed as a Rapid Application Development platform. In this session you'll learn the basics on how to build a business application on the Open Source SugarCRM platform.

Biography:
John Mertic serves as the Community Manager for SugarCRM, having several years of experience with PHP web applications and open source communities. A frequent conference speaker and an avid writer, he has been published in php|architect, IBM Developerworks, and in the Apple Developer Connection, and is the author of the book 'The Definitive Guide to SugarCRM: Better Business Applications' and the book 'Building on SugarCRM: Creating Applications the Easy Way'. He has also contributed to many open source projects, most notably the PHP project where is the creator and maintainer of the PHP Windows Installer.

OW2con'12 29 November 2012 morning - PROJECT SPOTLIGHT

Marc Dutoo

Abstract: Consistent service integration in your workflows with Scarbo 2.0 - Marc Dutoo and Yoann Rodiere, OpenWide
Scarbo is an open, complete, SOA ready, SCA powered, OW2 and Eclipse-based BPM solution. The 2.0 release adds a major component to its SOA/BPM solution: a service registry and repository enforcing consistency across design time and runtime by acting as a pivotal reference. By integrating with the EasySOA registry (, Scarbo opens up the door to BPM / SOA governance and documentation, benefits from service discovery to ease up service reuse, while making switching from test to production service endpoints a breeze. This talk will introduce the audience to its OW2-based architecture integrating components such as Bonita, FraSCAti and Nuxeo, and show how end users can benefit from Scarbo 2.0 with a demonstration.

Biography:
Leader of the EasySOA consortium, a 2 year (started 2010/11), 4m€ joint effort with INRIA, Talend, Nuxeo & Bull and the System@tic label to make Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) simple to use and throttle up the SOA engine in the enterprise. Founder and co-lead of Eclipse JWT (Java Workflow Tooling), available in Eclipse 3.5 and later. Leader of OW2 Scarbo, the Open Source SCA BPM solution. Member of OW2 Technical Committee, Eclipse SOA Project Management Committee, Eclipse Planning Council. Contributor to various other projects like Talend ETL, Alfresco ECM, PEtALS ESB.

Clement Oudot

Abstract: LemonLDAP::NG 1.2 - Clément Oudot, Linagora
LemonLDAP::NG is a FOSS for WebSSO, access management and identity federation developed since 2005. Its community is active and regurlarly proposes new versions. This talk will first present the software and its main functionalities: Multi-domain SSO Configuration and session management Form replay CAS, OpenID and SAML support Authentication methods chaining Applications portal Password management Notifications Then the main novelties of version 1.2: Radius authentication (and use of Google Authenticator) Connection history management Put an application in maintenance state Inserting a menu on protected applications.

Christophe Hamerling

Abstract: What's new with Petals ESB? - Christophe Hamerling, Linagora
If you have missed the activity around Petals ESB these last months, then this session is for you. As a reminder, Petals ESB is an Enterprise Service Bus created in 2005 and hosted by OW2. Thanks to a service approach and the SOA paradigm, Petals aims at reducing the coupling between applications. Beyond the usual integration use case, Petals can be seen as a backbone infrastructure in information systems. This allows applications to focus on their business and reduces the complexity of informations systems thanks to a better modularization. One of the most notable aspect of Petals ESB is that it is distributed (several physical servers make a single virtual one). This alternative approach to clusters gives a lot of flexibility and allows several architecture solutions (geographical distribution, high availability, load balancing...). This presentation discusses the changes brought by the last versions. A focus is given to the tools that come with the platform, and how they cover various users and project stages (design, development, administration, platform monitoring, business monitoring). The presentation also introduces the upcoming features in Petals ESB and the use cases they will cover.

Biography:
Christophe is a Software Engineer/Developer/Architect/Addict working on Service Oriented Architecture and Cloud Projects at Linagora, a French Open Source Software Editor and active OW2 member. Christophe is one of the main OW2-Petals ESB comiter and works on several European and French research projects dealing with SOA, Cloud and Open source.

Alexis Portmann

Abstract: What's new in Bonita Open Solution? - Alexis Portmann, Account Manager, BonitaSoft
Business Process Management (BPM) is the discipline focused on optimizing the efficiency of a business. Bonita Open Solution is the first enterprise grade open source BPM Solution and is deployed for mission critical processes by a large number of SMB and large companies all around the world. This talk will present the next evolutions of Bonita Open Solution and a short status about the company.

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Goulven Le Jeune

Abstract: NovaForge V3 - Goulven Lejeune, Bull
This track will present the new version of NovaForge. NovaForge v3 is a completly new version of the professional development framework. Based on a new architecture inspired from the SOA concept, NovaForge v3 integrates famous Open Source components to provide a complete solution to manage and follow development projects. Its plugin architecture allow the developpers and project manager to use tools like Alfresco, Mantis, SVN, Jenkins, Sonar and many others with a single point of access and shared SSO. This presentation will be illustrated by a live demo of the product.

Biography:
Goulven Le Jeune has been an active member of the Open Source community for the past 10 years. He has created & leaded the BPM project Orchestra. He is now in charge of the NovaForge product. Florent Trolat is the project manager of NovaForge. He is an active member of the NovaForge team from the beginning of the project.

Gerard Dupont

Abstract: WebLab: an open source software for open source intelligence - Gérard Dupont, Cassidian
Information is power, thus search engines are key in many organizations. However knowledge workers are not standard users: their aims and needs are specific and often should not be shared with external providers - searching for information becomes intelligence. For these professionals, we proposed an integration platform made to facilitate the setup of intelligence solutions. Whether it concerns business or strategy - the platform can be adapted to any specific needs and domain allowing analysts to detect key information. However, making sense out of the large amount of unstructured content is a complex task. The Web is large and information is present in many forms. Complex techniques are necessary to discover the hidden structure of content and a single software provider cannot be expert on all them. Thus the integration platform comes as a perfect solution enabling the use of the best tools for each function. In this presentation we will present OSINT challenges and its growing importance. Then we will detail the WebLab approach to build flexible and scalable OSINT applications matching the fast-paced nature of OSINT. From semantic data models to upper architecture passing through selected technologies used, the presentation will do the complete tour of the WebLab project.

Biography:
Gérard Dupont is a research engineer in CASSIDIAN (an EADS company). He joined the System Design Center for his PhD, where he applied machine learning techniques to interactive information retrieval. He worked on several projects involving advanced media mining techniques: information extraction, multimedia processing and semantic knowledge bases. In particular he has been working on the WebLab platform since the early design. He participated to its release as an open source project on OW2 in 2008 and now work on the interactive retrieval components as well as enhancement of the core architecture (including privacy protection) through European research projects.

OW2con'12 29 November 2012 afternoon - QUALITY IN OPEN SOURCE

Alexandre Lefebvre

Abstract: Introduction SESSION QUALITY IN OPEN SOURCE

Biography:
Alexandre Lefebvre work at France Telecom Orange Labs in a unit responsible for enterprise middleware. Currently, he is CTO of OW2, and co-lead of OW2 Open Source Cloudware initiative http://www.ow2.org/Cloud/ as well as Open Cloud coordinator at Orange Labs. He is the lead of the OpenCloudware collaborative research project.

Guillaume Sauthier

Abstract: Development 2.0 @ OW2Clément Escoffier, Arrow-Group, Guillaume Sauthier, Peergreen and Christophe Hamerling, Linagora.OW2 has traditionally provided an infrastructure based on Subversion and GForge. However, software development is evolving toward a more distributed, social, flexible, and lean process. This talk presents how OW2 is embracing this new trend and the new tools and possibilities offered for your OW2 project. From the source code repository (Svn, Git@OW2, GitHub…) and bug trackers, to continuous integration and documentation, OW2 lets you develop your project using your own process and tools. Thanks to the quality tools promoted by OW2, your project benefits from quality tracking and labeling. Be more reactive, improve your efficiency, and increase your quality with OW2.

Biography:
Guillaume Sauthier works on the OW2 JOnAS project since 2003. He started his career helping J2EE 1.4 certification on the web services area. He especially became an Apache Axis commiter. Since then, his focus moved more on the modularity needs of the application server. In this context, he is involved in the OSGi community (being treasurer of the OSGi User Group France) and especially in the Apache Felix and Apache Felix iPOJO projects.

Clement Escofier

Abstract: Development 2.0 @ OW2Clément Escoffier, Arrow-Group, Guillaume Sauthier, Peergreen and Christophe Hamerling, Linagora.OW2 has traditionally provided an infrastructure based on Subversion and GForge. However, software development is evolving toward a more distributed, social, flexible, and lean process. This talk presents how OW2 is embracing this new trend and the new tools and possibilities offered for your OW2 project. From the source code repository (Svn, Git@OW2, GitHub…) and bug trackers, to continuous integration and documentation, OW2 lets you develop your project using your own process and tools. Thanks to the quality tools promoted by OW2, your project benefits from quality tracking and labeling. Be more reactive, improve your efficiency, and increase your quality with OW2.

Biography:

Christophe Hamerling

Abstract: Development 2.0 @ OW2Clément Escoffier, Arrow-Group, Guillaume Sauthier, Peergreen and Christophe Hamerling, Linagora.OW2 has traditionally provided an infrastructure based on Subversion and GForge. However, software development is evolving toward a more distributed, social, flexible, and lean process. This talk presents how OW2 is embracing this new trend and the new tools and possibilities offered for your OW2 project. From the source code repository (Svn, Git@OW2, GitHub…) and bug trackers, to continuous integration and documentation, OW2 lets you develop your project using your own process and tools. Thanks to the quality tools promoted by OW2, your project benefits from quality tracking and labeling. Be more reactive, improve your efficiency, and increase your quality with OW2.

Biography:
Christophe is a Software Engineer/Developer/Architect/Addict working on Service Oriented Architecture and Cloud Projects at Linagora, a French Open Source Software Editor and active OW2 member. Christophe is one of the main OW2-Petals ESB comiter and works on several European and French research projects dealing with SOA, Cloud and Open source.

Guillaume Sauthier

Abstract: OW2 Utilities, The Swiss Army Knife of OW2 ProjectsGuillaume Sauthier, PeerGreen. OW2 Utilities is a newly accepted project in the consortium. It aims to be the OW2 toolkit catalog for common pieces of code that everybody rewrite for each new project. This presentation will start with a description of the goals of that project, a little bit of history, then we will explain why it's important to maximize re-use within the consortium (reliability, ...). In a second part we will focus to the most useful and/or interesting modules provided by this project. This session will be developer-oriented, with code samples and effective use cases.

Biography:
Guillaume Sauthier works on the OW2 JOnAS project since 2003. He started his career helping J2EE 1.4 certification on the web services area. He especially became an Apache Axis commiter. Since then, his focus moved more on the modularity needs of the application server. In this context, he is involved in the OSGi community (being treasurer of the OSGi User Group France) and especially in the Apache Felix and Apache Felix iPOJO projects.

Lamar Williams

Abstract: Open Source Governance in the OW2 SQUAT program, using Fossology and Antepedia ReporterLamar Williams & Philippe Bolac, Antelink.During this talk we will describe how tools dedicated to open source components and source code scanning like Fossology or Antepedia Reporter help development tools to enforce open source licensing policies.

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Philippe Bolac

Abstract: Open Source Governance in the OW2 SQUAT program, using Fossology and Antepedia ReporterLamar Williams & Philippe Bolac, Antelink.During this talk we will describe how tools dedicated to open source components and source code scanning like Fossology or Antepedia Reporter help development tools to enforce open source licensing policies.

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Meng Li

Abstract:Tracking code evolution for open source universeMeng Li, Peking University. The existing large amount of OSS artifacts has provided abundant materials for understanding how code is reused in open source universe, in particular, what code pieces are mostly reused, in what circumstances people reuse code, and so forth. Understanding this process could help with legacy software maintenance, as well as help to explore best practice of software development. Targeting the change history data of thousands of open source projects, we try to answer the following question: First, how is code reused by other projects? Second, how are code files organized in project and how does this organization structure change over time? To answer these questions, there are several technical difficulties we have to overcome. For example, because of the different kinds of VCSs, it is hard to figure out a uniform model which can represent the evolution progress of code files stored in them. Also, each VCS may have its own data format, so, extracting data from them is a big challenge. Furthermore, using current software algorithm and hardware platform to analyze the version iteration and reuse information of about a billion code files is another challenge.

Biography:
I am a 4th year Ph.D. student from Peking University.
My research interests include Web Services, software reuse, and data mining.

Gabriele Giammatteo

Abstract: ETICS: quality certification of open source cloud softwareGabriele Giammatteo, Engineering Group. Cloud Computing is becoming the new paradigm for the Internet and Service provisioning. Open source solutions, especially those resulting from R/D projects, often are neglected due to the absence of track-records in use by real world applications. ETICS is a build, test and certification software developed since 2004 and up to now used at CERN, ENG and others to build and test various complex software systems, such us glite (http://glite.cern.ch) and gcube (http://www.gcube-system.org). ETICS will be used in the Ocean support action to certify the quality of RTD open source cloud software. Ocean aims at identifying and tracking open-source cloud development projects in an open online portal to promote cross-project collaboration. Ocean will also provide projects with an on-demand build and test service reducing their need for installing and operating tools, and a beta-tester service giving them back a comprehensive review and feedback. This presentation provides an overview of the ETICS approach and tool and the way it's planned to be adopted within the Ocean project.

Biography:
Gabriele Giammatteo graduated (in 2009) in Computer Engineering at the "Università degli studi di Roma Tre" on Secure Storage in distributed environments. He is currently employed in Engineering’s R&D Lab as software engineer with expertise in the set up and management of distributed infrastructures in particular in grid and cloud computational and/or data management systems. He has been involved in some FP7 projects (namely ETICS2, D4ScienceEcosystem) and he is currently working on TEFIS project as WP leader of Work Package 5 in charge of the definition, the design and the implementation of connectors.

Daniele Gagliardi

Abstract:An open source infrastructure supporting software quality assessment at Engineering GroupDaniele Gagliardi, Spago4Q - Engineering Group. Engineering Group's Quality Assurance department has developed an infrastructure allowing to monitor the quality of the development processes of software projects and products, which was also needed to achieve the CMMi-DEV lev.3 certification compliance. The infrastructure allows the logical and technical integration of different tools supporting the development and management of software projects, in compliance with the corporate organizational rules, thus granting a high level of flexibility to users, who can choose between open source tools and, if requested, proprietary ones. The cornerstone of this process is Spago4Q, which provides the working groups with the necessary information to trace and develop end-users' requirements, to manage tests and project information, including risks, opportunities, metrics and documents. Moreover, it allows the Quality Assurance department to make its own audits on projects and related management processes. Spago4Q extracts the needed information from the different data sources, integrating them into a consistent meta-model. The speech describes the results obtained through the development of original solutions and the integration of both open source and proprietary products, such as TestLink, Jira, Liferay and Alfresco. The speech will include an overview on the possible improvements in terms of project quality and corporate processes.

Biography:
Daniele Gagliardi, is an IT Solution Architect. Before joining Spago4Q design team, he has been working for several years in the domain of Identity and Access Management, web applications design as well as development of PKI (Public Key Infrastructures) and digital signature products. At present, he contributes to the development of Spago4Q platform and supports Engineering Group's Quality Assurance department in the realization of a technolgical infrastructure for the development and quality assessment of software products and projects.

Marc Lacoste

Abstract: VESPA: Multi-Layered Self-Protection for IaaS CloudsMarc Lacoste, Orange Labs. Self-protection has raised growing interest as possible element of answer to the cloud protection challenge. Faced with multiple threats and heterogeneous defense systems, the autonomic approach proposes simpler, stronger, and more efficient cloud security management. Previous solutions fall at the last hurdle, overlooking one or several key desirable features such as flexible security policies, cross-layered defense, multiple control granularities, and open security architectures. This talk presents VESPA, an open self-protection architecture and framework for cloud infrastructures that overcomes the previous limitations. Developed in the OpenCloudWare project, VESPA adopts a policy-based management approach, and allows a two-level regulation of security, both within a software layer and across layers. Flexible coordination between self-protection loops allows enforcing a rich spectrum of security strategies such as cross-layer detection and reaction. A multi-plane, extensible architecture also enables simple integration of commodity detection and reaction components. Evaluation results on a VESPA KVM-based implementation show that the design is applicable for effective and yet flexible self-protection of cloud infrastructures.

Biography:
Dr. Marc Lacoste is a senior research scientist in the Security Department of Orange Labs. His main research interests are in security architecture, notably in cloud computing security, self-protecting systems, and open security kernels. He contributed to several European projects such E2R, investigating self-protection for Beyond 3G networks. He served in several major conference program committees. Member of the ACM, he also published numerous security research papers in international conferences, and holds several patents in this area. Dr. Lacoste received engineering degrees from Ecole Polytechnique and Télécom ParisTech, and holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Grenoble, France.

Pierre Chatel

Abstract: CHOReOS: Large Scale Choreographies for the Future Internet, from theory to practicePierre Chatel, Thales. The CHOReOS ‘Large Scale Choreographies for the Future Internet’ European FP7 project that started 2 years ago, and is linked to OW2 Future Internet initiative, has now reached a certain level of maturity that is starting to gives concrete answers on how to move from choreography enactment theory, to its actual practice. More precisely, CHOReOS has defined several methods, toolkits and artifacts to enable this innovative distributed way of coordinating services, while at the same time dealing with some of the inherent difficulties to enacting choreographies in an [Ultra] Large Scale context. For instance, this covers being able to ‘execute’ choreography specifications over a network of discovered, dynamic, Business and Thing-based services. This presentation will cover the aforementioned topics and specific CHOReOS developments that were undertaken in its second year, while putting them in perspective of a simple practice-oriented and business-driven use-case in Air-Traffic Management.

Biography:
Pierre CHATEL is an R&T Software Engineer and Interoperability and Big Data activities Manager in the Smart Systems lab of Thales Advanced Studies, with particular expertise in large-scale distributed systems and System of Systems. He is involved in the CHOReOS and and FI-WARE FP7 UE projects, WoO ITE2 project, as well as in CONNECT, SemEUsE and SocEDA French ANR projects. Defended in 2010 and jointly coordinated by LIP6 laboratory (Paris VI University) and by Thales Land & Joint Systems, his PhD thesis has as topic 'A qualitative approach for decision making under non-functional constraints during agile service composition'. Pierre also gave courses on distributed computing from 2007 to 2009 at Paris VII University, and worked as a research engineer at LIP6 in 2010.

Gaurav Parakh

Abstract: Open Source and InnovationGaurav Parakh and Michel Catan, Mandriva. Mandriva S.A and its offering in open source, Mandriva Skill and Research projects, Mandriva open source CaseStudy.

Biography:
VP Partnership Alliance & Business Dev
Prior to joining Mandriva, Gaurav was an associate consultant at "Amul", one of the biggest conglomerate in Asia, unit he co-founded "Dialog" in 2000, an educational consulting & conseling company for international universities and domestic students. He joined Mandriva as a Partnership Manager to build Mandriva's world-wide franchies network. His roles includes enabling Mandriva's business through strategic business development, operational marketing and international partnership management. Later he was promoted to manage Mandriva global partnership alliance including International ISVs relationships & Mandriva, Brazil subsidiary (in charge of P&L operation, business development, marketing and sales).
A Post-graduate MBA in International business from "Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussées" (ENPC), Paris and BBMS from University of Bradford UK. Gaurav holds an academic white paper work on "Linux industry & disruptive future technology.

Michel Catan

Abstract: Open Source and InnovationGaurav Parakh and Michel Catan, Mandriva. Mandriva S.A and its offering in open source, Mandriva Skill and Research projects, Mandriva open source CaseStudy.

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Cedric Thomas

Abstract: Wrap-Up

Biography:
Cedric Thomas, is OW2 CEO. An IT industry veteran with twenty-five years of experience in strategy and marketing consulting for IT vendors and systems integrators, he has developed OW2 into a global community spanning four continents. Prior to OW2, as both an investor and a consultant, he actively took part in three IPOs, contributed to the launch of several technology start-ups, and helped set up technology firms in Boston and San Francisco.